Michelle Dynes, PhD, MPH, MSN, CNM, RN EIS Officer, Emergency Response and Recovery Branch Prepared for IAWG Meeting 2015 Jordan, February 2015 Evaluation of Handheld Solar Lights among Internally Displaced Populations in Two Camps in Haiti — August 2013-April 2014 Center for Global Health Emergency Response and Recovery Branch
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Michelle Dynes, PhD, MPH, MSN, CNM, RN
EIS Officer, Emergency Response and Recovery Branch
Prepared for IAWG Meeting 2015
Jordan, February 2015
Evaluation of Handheld Solar Lights among Internally Displaced
Populations in Two Camps in Haiti — August 2013-April 2014
Center for Global Health
Emergency Response and Recovery Branch
LESSONS LEARNEDBACKGROUND
December 2011, USNAP Women, Peace and Security
Focus on Gender Based Violence (GBV) in humanitarian settings
Collaboration between the United States government (USG) and IRC
Build the evidence needed to validate use of handheld solar lights
US National Action Plan (USNAP)
Evaluation Goal
To document the use and benefits of handheld solar lights among females ≥14 years and older living in Toto and
Sinai Camps, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Evaluation Objectives
Evaluation Objectives
To assess the physical environments of camps Sinai & Toto.
Evaluation Objectives
To assess the physical environments of camps Sinai & Toto.
To document the utility of handheld solar lights.
Evaluation Objectives
To assess the physical environments of camps Sinai & Toto.
To document the utility of handheld solar lights.
To determine the durability and retention of the handheld solar light.
Evaluation Objectives
To assess the physical environments of camps Sinai & Toto.
To document the utility of handheld solar lights.
To determine the durability and retention of the handheld solar light.
To measure sense of safety.
LESSONS LEARNEDMETHODS
Evaluation Design - Methods
Direct observation to assess environmental conditions
Evaluation Design - Methods
Direct observation to assess environmental conditions
Focus group discussions (FGD) to assess perceptions, attitudes, risks
Participatory Mapping
Evaluation Design - Methods
Direct observation to assess environmental conditions
Focus group discussions (FGD) to assess perceptions, attitudes, risks
Monitoring surveys to assess use, retention and durability
Participatory Mapping
Evaluation Design - Methods
Direct observation to assess environmental conditions
Focus group discussions (FGD) to assess perceptions, attitudes, risks
Monitoring surveys to assess use, retention and durability
Household surveys to assess use, durability, activities, and safety Participatory
Mapping
Sample Size
FGDHousehold
Surveys
Sample Size
FGDHousehold
Surveys
Purposive sampling of 14-19 and 25-45
Sample Sizes Baseline: N=8
(n=80) Endline: N=8
(n=82)
Sample Size
2013 IOM Camp Registration Database
Sampling parameters 20% non-response rate 95% CI and a precision of 0.05 10% change in safety
Sexual violence 19 (19.6) 17 (22.4) 2 (9.5) 0.231Women in Sinai were more likely to feel unprotected from hearing guns shots and physical violence
LESSONS LEARNELIMITATIONS
Limitations
No control group, so unable to draw causal conclusions about the impact of lights
Intervention did not take place in an acute emergency setting, so findings may be different in other contexts
Difficult to translate and measure complex concepts such as safety
Social desirability bias many have impacted responses
Recommendations
Improve the physical camp
environment in IDP camps in order to affect the security
and safety of women and girls.
Recommendations
Improve the physical camp
environment in IDP camps in order to affect the security
and safety of women and girls.
Closer monitoring of protection
issues to allow identification and
response to changes over time.
Recommendations
Improve the physical camp
environment in IDP camps in order to affect the security
and safety of women and girls.
Closer monitoring of protection
issues to allow identification and
response to changes over time.
Support distribution of handheld solar
lights for individual use to improve the quality of daily life.
Recommendations
Increase of security presence and community
patrols inside the IDP camps
Recommendations
Increase of security presence and community
patrols inside the IDP camps
Handheld solar lamps as one aspect of an
overall package offered to women
and girls in emergencies.
Recommendations
Increase of security presence and community
patrols inside the IDP camps
Handheld solar lamps as one aspect of an
overall package offered to women
and girls in emergencies.
Future studies should assess the
utility and durability of lights in other settings
and across emergency phases.
For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333Telephone, 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.cdc.gov
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Acknowledgements
Center for Global Health
Emergency Response and Recovery Branch
IRC staff-NYC and Haiti, IRC Contractors Anjuli Shivshanker Fedna Edourd Francesca Rivelli Jennifer Miquel Leora Ward Miriam Castanedo Nicole Klaesener-Metzner Reginald Bazile Virginia Zuco
FGD facilitators, survey enumerators, data entry clerks, and drivers
Women and families of Camp Toto & Sinai
CDC staff-Atlanta and Haiti Anna Gajewski Erica Kantor Barbara Marston Holly Williams Basia Tomczyk Jennifer Whitmill Brian Wheeler Mariana Rosenthal Colleen Hardy Roodly Archer Curtis Blanton Samira Sami
USAID OFDA staff-DC and Haiti Anjelica Fleischer Carolyne Siganda Courtney Blake Jonathon Anderson